World War II

World War II
A black-and-white photograph of a young man examining a large microscope. The man has short, dark hair, is wearing a white shirt and a white lab coat and is holding a smoking pipe in his mouth. The microscope has a black conical base with three trapezoidal windows and a silver cylindrical body.
EES Researcher Jim Hubbard with the EM200 electron microscope

In 1940, Georgia Institute of Technology president Blake Van Leer appointed Gerald Rosselot the assistant director of the Engineering Experiment Station. Rosselot was the organization's director from 1941 to 1952.[12][13] In his tenure as director, World War II significantly increased the number and value of contracts coming to the station; the 1943-1944 budget being was first in which industry and government contracts exceeded the station's other income (most notably, its state appropriation).[12] Director Vaughan had initially prepared the faculty for fewer incoming contracts as state had cut the station's appropriation by 40%,[10] but increased support from industry and government eventually counteracted low state support.[12] World War II is also credited with GTRI's entry into electronics, especially telecommunications and electronic warfare; the electronics and communications research that Director Rosselot attracted is still a mainstay of GTRI research.[14][11] Two of the larger projects were a study on the propagation of electromagnetic waves, and United States Navy-sponsored radar research.[11]
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